Wikipedia:Today's featured article/emergency

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Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump. It was last substantively updated June 2019.

With effect from 20 October 2017, the TFA coordinators are Dank, Ealdgyth, Jimfbleak and Wehwalt.

If scheduling, or rescheduling, in an emergency:

Fully move-protect the intended new article (if not already protected) until 00:00 on the day after it is due to be TFA
If you are changing today's featured article:
- If you are a Commons admin, or can find one quickly, get the new image protected at Commons. If you are not a Commons admin, upload a local copy of the new image. If neither of these steps is done, then the image will be unprotected and open to vandalism at Commons (unless and until a Commons bot happens to notice it, but you can't rely on this happening quickly or indeed at all)
- Cut and paste the chosen blurb below into today's TFA subpage - don't change the "recently featured" links or footer
- Change today's subpage of {{TFA title}} (found at {{TFA title/April 25, 2024}}) to match the new article
If you are changing tomorrow's featured article:
- Cut and paste the chosen blurb below into tomorrow's TFA subpage - don't change the "recently featured" links or footer
If no TFA has been scheduled for today or tomorrow:
- Go to Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 2024 and use the "create" button to start the required page
- Cut and paste the chosen blurb from WP:TFAR, or from below
- Complete the "recently featured" section by copying and updating the list from the previous day.

Thereafter, when time permits:

Update the "recently featured" links on the TFA blurbs for the following days
If you have replaced an article that appeared for part of a day, precedent says that both articles should be marked as having appeared on the main page and have the event included in their article history. So:
- Add |maindate=April 25, 2024 to the {{Article history}} on the TFA's talk page
- Add {{FA/BeenOnMainPage| }} around the article's entry at Wikipedia:Featured articles (a bot will in due course update the list of FAs that have not appeared on the main page, so don't worry about that).
Update Wikipedia:Today's featured article oddities and Wikipedia:Today's featured article/recent TFAs/April 2024.
Trout the coordinators as necessary.

Thanks. Bencherlite ^Talk 09:23, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Emergency 1 edit

TBD

Emergency 2 edit

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Emergency 3 edit

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Emergency 5 edit

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